Keeping you updated on the latest ransomware attack vectors, strains, decryptors, families and trends to help you avoid becoming infected.
A North Korean hacking group is suspected to be behind WanaCry. Symantec and Kaspersky malware labs are investigating technical evidence that possibly suggests the North’s involvement, ...
Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica was confronted with 85 percent of their systems shut down after ransomware criminals infiltrated its systems demanding $550,000 in Bitcoin. Telefonica is ...
Russian organized cybercrime now has a surprising method of determining how much to ask for – the Big Mac index from The Economist. Security firm Recorded Future blogged that in March, a ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Cybercriminals held a Providence law firm hostage for months by encrypting its files and demanding $25,000 in ransom paid in Bitcoin to restore access, according to a ...
America was the victim of 34 percent of global ransomware infections in 2016. The "why" is clear; a whopping 64 percent of Americans are willing to pay to get their files back, as opposed ...
The threat of ransomware has never been more real. In fact, 2016 was a record year. Here are some scary statistics from the past year put together by the folks at Barkly: Nearly 50 ...
NEWARK, N.J. (CBSNewYork) — . The City of Newark’s computer system has been disabled by hackers demanding thousands in ransom money, according to a published report. Hackers are demanding ...
Locky ransomware reappeared with a vengeance Friday, this time not using Office documents combined with social engineering to have the user enable macros, but with a PDF that has a Word ...
During 2016, ransomware exploded. It clearly became the biggest menace on the net, using phishing as it's No.1 infection vector. Hundreds of ransomware strains competed for market ...
A new version of the Cerber ransomware family has adopted new techniques to make itself harder to detect by endpoint security software that uses machine learning for detection. It is now ...
Now, here is an interesting one. Gigabyte BRIX are very small computers, similar to Intel NUCs, that can be used to replace those bulky desktop towers. I am using Intel NUCs myself at the ...
This month, a user on the Atlanta-based 500 million-dollar backup company Veeam community forums reported that they were hit with Samas ransomware. I am giving you the short version here: ...
More than 4,000 ransomware attacks occur daily and healthcare is the largest target. However, despite disclosure requirements and the risk of late or no HIPAA notification at all, breach ...
Kasperky researchers discovered a new variant of last year's Petya Master File Table (MFT) ransomware, with "new and improved" crypto and ransomware models. Remember, MFT ransomware only ...
Danny Palmer at ZDNet reported on a new scheme for aspiring cyber criminals that lets them into the ransomware racket for free, but at a steep 50/50 split with the people that provide ...
We all thought that evil genius Evgeniy Bogachev had retired at the Black Sea with his tens of millions of ill-gotten gains after he became the FBI's #1 Most Wanted cybercriminal. Well, ...
Brian Krebs just wrote: "A big reason for the steep increase in ransomware attacks in recent years comes from the proliferation of point-and-click tools sold in the cybercrime underground ...
New research reveals that the majority of ransomware victims (85 percent) had their systems taken offline for at least a week, costing businesses thousands in financial damage each day.
Copycats delete databases without dumping them first. Internet-facing instances of the popular MySQL information store are being targeted by attackers following similar attacks on ...
